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' TAG FASTENER. v No. 321,864. Patented July 7, 1885..

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO EUGENE H. TAYLOR, OF LYNN, ASSIGNOR OETWO-THIRDS TO GEORGE W. HOLLIS, OF BOSTON, AND LLOYD WV. PENNELL, OF\VATERTONVN, MASS.

.TAG-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,864, dated July 7,1885.

Application filed August 18, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE H. TAYLOR, of Lynn, county of Essex, State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Tag-Fast- 5 eners, ofwhich the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

The object of my invention is the produc- 10 tion of a fastener whichmay readily be inserted into the soft or flexible article upon which thetag is to be applied, and which will be self-retaining.

My invention consists, essentially, in a tag- 1 fastener composed offlattened or sheet metal cut to form a head and shank, the latter beingprovided with a barb punched through from the shank, the shank beingturned down from the head, all as shown.

Figure 1 is a plan View of a piece of metal, the dotted linesrepresenting the lines in which it will be cut for the production of oneof my improved fasteners; Fig. 2, a perspective view of a completedfastener; Fig. 3, a side 2 5 elevation; and Fig. 4, an under side Viewof Fig. 2, all the said figures being enlarged.

A sheet or strip of flattened metal, A, will be cut by a punch and diein the lines represented in Fig. 1 to form a blank for the pro- 0duction of a fastener. The fastener so produced has a head, a, and apointed shank, b,

bent substantially at right angles to the said head and integraltherewith. A part of the shank is struck or cut to form a prong, c,which will catch the soft material into which the shank is forced andprevent the same from dropping out.

The metal forming the shank, instead of being bent at right angles fromthe peripheryof the head, is bent down from the head at or near thecenter of the latter, the two slots made into the head-forming portionof the blank from its periphery substantially to its EUGENE H. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

Geo. W. GREGORY, J 0s. P. LIVERMORE.

